Evolutionary Terms
Which evolutionary mechanism is a major contributor to genetic variation?
What is mutation?
Who was known as the Father of Taxonomy?
Who is Carolus Linnaeus?
What is an evolutionary tree that diagrams the ancestral relationships among organisms?
What is a clade?
Who is the Father of Evolution?
Who is Darwin?
What is the state of having the same or similar relation, relative position, or structure?
What is homology?
Which term is known under the popular phrase "Survival of the Fittest"?
What is natural selection?
Who made the Scala Naturae?
Who is Aristotle?
What term describes the following scenario shown on a clade:
A brown animal with a long neck's descendants evolves two separate species: a giraffe and an okapi.
What is cladogenesis?
Who came up with the idea of natural selection separately from Darwin?
Who is Wallace?
What is theology or knowledge of God based on observed facts and experience apart from divine revelation?
What is natural theology?
What are the five major evolutionary mechanisms?
What is a mutation, genetic drift, gene flow, non-random mating, and natural selection?
Who termed uniformitarianism? (Two acceptable answers)
Who is Charles Lyell? (Or James Hutton)
Which -phyletic term describes descendants from a common evolutionary ancestor or ancestral group.
What is monophyletic?
Who was Darwin's companion to the Galapagos?
Who is Fitzroy?
What is a character shared by a set of species but not present in their common ancestor?
What is homoplasy?
Which evolutionary mechanism maintains diversity between populations?
What is genetic drift?
Who supported the use/disuse theory?
Who is Lamarck?
What term describes the following scenario shown on a clade:
A black butterfly's descendent evolves into a separate pick butterfly species.
What is anagenesis?
What job did Darwin have other than being a natural theologist?
What is a clergyman?
What is retention by an organism of juvenile or even larval traits into later life?
What is paedomorphosis?
Which evolutionary mechanism maintains diversity in a population?
What is gene flow?
Who termed catastrophism?
Georges Cuvier
Fill in the appropriate terms:
(First term): a taxon that consists of a most recent common ancestor and some of its descendants.
(Second term): a taxon that consists of unrelated organisms who are from a different recent common ancestor.
Paraphyletic ; Polyphyletic
What was the name of the boat Darwin traveled on?
What is the HMS Beagle?
What is the hypothesis that evolutionary development is marked by isolated episodes of rapid speciation between long periods of little or no change?
What is punctuated equilibrium?